Our duty

To begin with, as regards epigenetics, we must exact the unbiased information we are entitled to as responsible citizens. Firstly because it's important for everyone to make sure mothers-to-be will have the possibility to provide their coming child with a favorable humoral-tactile-affective environment during primal period. Secondly, because in spite of Suzanne Arms [71] having again stressed it all in an interview with Jeff Smith (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCtCuOmz4fY), "we are [still] creating the human beings who destroy the world". Indeed, women and doctors are [still] victims of a system which fails to consider primal prevention for the all too evident reason that, already a long time ago, the beneficiaries of a hypertrophied sector of globalized economy have abandoned the common good.

Today, such an essential, basic awareness is still largely overshadowed (see for example http://portail.naissance.asso.fr/docs/cul-de-sac.htm#en) by a flood of "consensus" publications and press titles on fashionable but peripheral subjects (such as future mothers’ best diet [31]). As for recently publicized prospects – like those of developing medicines to “cure sick genes” [32], or of re-initiating, in an adult, the function of a gene that’s normally active only during embryonic development [33] – more fundamental, basic knowledge already points to how naïve they are [15].

Even the Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University, despite publications and excellent videos presenting the new biological knowledge, happens to remain somewhat besides the point by only stressing the necessity to intervene as early as possible after the first signs of child suffering have been detected! Why on earth doesn't it first recommend the evident way to prevent such first signs?

What people do need now is to learn what is – and will remain – essential. What is at stake is simply enormous. One can only wonder how a simple primal-prevention strategy – which sooner or later will prove to be the most powerful determinant of a nation’s health – can still be ignored even by public-health authorities. Even in Switzerland where, as recently revealed by the director of the IUMSP (University Institute of Social and Preventive Mecicine in Lausanne), out of the monthly CHF 750 spent by people for their health, only CHF 20 are devoted to conventional types of prevention [66].

Well, it's certainly not an easy task to make up one’s mind over such an important matter. As an irreplaceable person[34], however, every citizen ought to make use of his/her own ability to observe insidious changes in his/her domain of activity, as much as to seek and evaluate new information.